Trinidadian - Novelist | August 17, 1932 -
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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